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Calif. bus crash included 10 from Tijuana hospital

The Associated Press

Posted:
02/05/2013 07:19:07 PM PST

Updated:
02/05/2013 07:19:07 PM PST

SAN DIEGO—A woman killed along with her mother and her son in the weekend's tour bus crash in the Southern California mountains was a doctor, part of a group of 10 people from a Tijuana, Mexico hospital who made the trip.

Hospital spokesman Samuel Gasca de los Reyes said Tuesday that the tight-knit group of 10 people—six hospital employees and four of their family members—made the trip to the Big Bear ski resort on Sunday.

The employees' positions ranged from receptionists to doctors like 40-year-old Elvira Garcia, who was killed along with her 13-year-old son Victor Cabrera-Garcia and her 61-year-old mother Maria Guadalupe Olivas.

The seven survivors from the group were injured and sent to hospitals. Five have been released and two remain.